Reputation (Mason Family, #2)

by Adriana Locke

It’s calm in the midst of an unpredictable world. It’s safe when nothing else feels solid.

It’s not easy to verbalize the things going on inside my head. It’s as if I let them out, they become real.

The outside will look like I have it all figured out.”

Pretending to be okay is something I do well. Putting on a show for others is a trick I mastered a long time ago.

“Loving someone is action. It’s communicating and compromising and working your ass off.

Routine helps. The one foot in front of the other mantra is solid.

I’ve been let down so many times in my life that I almost expect it,” I say softly. “I act bubbly and happy, but a lot of the times, I’m just looking around for what’s going to go wrong next.”